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Gagauz
Etymology
Inherited from Old Anatolian Turkish اُوشَقْ (uşaq), اُوشَاقْ (uşaq), from Common Turkic *uvšak, whence also ufak.[1] Compare Turkish uşak, Azerbaijani uşaq
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uˈʃɑk/
- Hyphenation: u‧şak
Adjective
uşak (not comparable)
- childish
uşak olma!- don't be childish
- (by extension) naive, silly
Noun
uşak (definite accusative uşaa, plural uşaklar)
- kid, child
uşaan var mı?- do you have any kids?
2024 September 20, ““Mamucuumnan kol-kola” – uşaklar için peet-boyama kiyadın prezentațiyası”, in Ana Sözü:...o günü Komrat Kultura Evinä geldilär uşak başçalarından hem şkolalardan uşaklar kendi terbiedicilerinnän hem üüredicilerinnän...- ... that day, children from kindergartens and schools came to Comrat Culture House with their mentors and teachers...
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Further reading
- Mavrodi M. F., editor (2019), “uşak”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 1-4, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 83
- Kopuşçu M. İ. , Todorova S. A. , Kiräkova T.İ., editors (2019), “uşak”, in Gagauzça-rusça sözlük: klaslar 5-12, Komrat: Gagauziya M.V. Maruneviç adına Bilim-Aaraştırma merkezi, →ISBN, page 167
- N. A Baskakov, editor (1972), “ушак”, in Gagauzsko-Russko-Moldavskij Slovarʹ [Gagauz-Russian-Moldovan Dictionary], Moskva: Izdatelʹstvo Sovetskaja Enciklopedija, →ISBN, page 488
Turkish
Etymology
Inherited from Ottoman Turkish اوشاق (uşak, “small, petite; child”), ultimately from Common Turkic *uvša- (“to become smaller”), compare Old Turkic (uvšak/ušak, “small”).
Pronunciation
Noun
uşak (definite accusative uşağı, plural uşaklar)
- male servant, factotum
- (Black Sea, Rumelia) child, kid
- Synonym: çocuk
- henchman, lackey
Declension
Further reading
- “uşak”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu
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